Recent Blog Posts by David Armstrong

Solid spring for the Ottawa Real Estate Market.

The Ottawa Real Estate Board April report indicates that real estate in Ottawa continues to be a very good investment.  The average house price increased by 3.7% over April 2011 with more inventory being available (6.9% more listings) and more activity (2.5% increase in sales). These statistics show that low interest rates, a stable economy combined with a healthy supply of homes ...

21 Reasons to list with The Armstrong Team - Reason #2

Experience - We have been selling Real Estate in Barrhaven, Nepean, Kanata and Ottawa for the past 25 years.  Joyce was born and rasied here and David has lived in Ottawa since 1974.  We have raised our two children in Barrhaven were they attend school, participated in sports and cultural activities, worked, socialized and grew-up.  We also own properties in Barrhaven and Kanata.  ...

New listing - 819 Dynes Road

Are you looking for a great family or an excellent investment opportunity?  Then look now further than 819 Dynes Road.  This is an exceptional, all brick bungalow in Courtland Park - West Ottawa.  Ideally located just a short walk from Hog's Back, Mooney's Bay and Carleton University.  This is a great home that the original owners are selling.  Visit www.819DynesRd.com ...

NEW LISTING - 109 Mountshannon Drive

NEW LISTING! - 109 Mountshannon Drive, Barrhaven.  Excellent value for this 3 bedroom, 2 bath endunit townhouse in popular Longfields. Listed at $257,900.  The home features an open concept main living space with laminate wood floors.  The living room and dining room are great for family or entertaining.  The kitchen has refinished cabinets and counters with new hardware ...

New Social Media Guide keeps Century 21 Sales Associates up-to-date with Technology

CENTURY 21 Canada unveiled the latest tool in its web marketing strategy to it's  real estate sales professionals and brokers attending the CENTURY 21 Insight Path to Profit.    The CENTURY 21 Canada Social Media Guide was developed by Heather Angus-Lee, former journalist and now President of PROSocial Media. The guide is published in French and English in the form of an e-book ...

Canadian Mortgage Market Manging Risk.

The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals CAAMP released a press release today that indicates that the Canadian Mortgage Market and Canadians in general are manging the risk of higher interest rates.  Here is the press for more details contact me and we can arrange to discuss the report in detail and how it impacts on you and your real estate holdings. Press: Research shows ...

If you don"t buy a house now, You're stupid or broke!

Wow! What a headline.  This was the title of an article in Business Week recently (http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/dec2009/bw2009127_753974.htm).  The title was designed to grab attention but some people may have been put off by the opening line. It's a great article that talks about the facts of buying a home and that now maybe the the best time to do so.  It's an American ...

Making it easier to find homes on Century21.ca

Century 21 Canada and wheretolive.com have just relaunched the century21.ca platform making it more friendly and easy to use for you the customer.  Already the most visited franchise website in Canada and the second largest real estate website it's know easier to use and search.  The video will walk you through the updates and explain how to use them.

Another Successful Sale!

We have just successfully help Tammy, Glenn and family sell their home in Manotick,  www.5438Riverside.com.  It was a pleasure working with them to get their home sold and moving on to their new home.  We wish them much happiness in their new home.    Find out more about how we can help you and your family sell your current home or buy a new one call us at 613-867-9921 ...

Century 21 John DeVries welcomes Stacey Jessiman to the Team.

David Armstrong, Broker/Manager is pleased to announce that Stacey Jessiman has just joined the Century 21 John DeVries Team as a Sales Representative.  Stacey grew up with her family in West Carleton and was an active participant in sports with her brother and sister at her side.  After graduating from school Stacey spent time travelling in Asia and Australia before coming back to Ottawa ...

Update Listing - 5438 Riverside Crescent, Manotick

Visit www.5438riverside.com for details and pictures of this fabuloous listing on Popular Manotick's North Island.

New Listing - 5438 Riverside Cres, Manotick, Ontario

  Just Listed 5438 Riverside Cres, Manotick. Fabulous family home on the North Island in sought after Manotick. 2+2 bedroom Hi-ranch with a main floor den. Great yard (116 x 167) with inground pool. Loads of recent renovations all we need is a fami...ly to buy it. 21 pictures and Virtual tour to follow. Showings start Monday don't miss out.  

Welcome Cristy Rousson.

Cristy Rousson has joined the Century 21 John DeVries Sales team as a Sales Representative.  She will work with Connie Rivington-Howie as a Buyer Agent.  Cristy has been an unlicensed assistant working with Connie for the past year.  Some of you may recognize Cristy from the Rink were she is a figure skating instructor or the YMCA were is is a personal fitness instructor.  Cristy ...

A Milestone Reached

The Management and Staff wish Dale Penstone a Happy 70th Birthday.  Dale has been a hugely successful, award winning Realtor with our company since 1985.  She has managed an office for the company, has been involved in training and assisting many of our new agents as they start their career.  While Dale has reduced her sales volume over the past few years she still actively works ...

How to hire a Home Inspector.

In my last blog I ranted a little about a Home Inspector who did an inspection on one of my listings and scared off the buyer when in fact he made an error.  I asked how do we hold them accountable?  The bottom line answer is with great difficulty so the next question is how do you find a good one.  I asked my Home Inspector, Harry Bradford for his insight.  I have worked with Harry ...

Home Inspector Accountability?

Home Inspections have become almost a standard feature for most home buyers in the marketplace today and are something that I advise all my clients to get as a condition in an Agreement of Purchase and Sale, regardless of the age or type of home. Recently, I had a listing that had a roof replaced 8 years earlier.  We received an offer on the home conditional upon a home inspection.  ...

How simple?

Yesterday I attended a session hosted by Century 21 about it's website strategy and website www.century21.ca. The session was hosted by staff from wheretolive.com the designers of the website. We talked about strategy and design but the most important thing was about traffic.  Why do consumers really visit real estate websites?  to find out about a house they have seen, either in an ad, ...

The BEST House?

If you are buying you need to be informed of prices, neighbourhoods and house styles and how they will impact your quality of life and the long term investment that you are making.  I recently worked with a buyer who fell in love with a house that we all felt was priced a little high.  We looked closely at the comparables and all things considered the house should have been listed about ...

Preparing your House for Sale.

What do you need to do to prepare your house for sale?  I'm often asked this question and it has become a more and more important questions in the past few years.  Why?  I believe because a lot of buyers are watching HGTV and seeing hearing what the experts are saying.  This changes their perception and perception is reality.  Buyers now view homes and if they aren't in tip ...